Bending Spoons buys Miro for $1.36 bn – a 92% valuation plunge that underlines the SaaS multiple collapse

Italian app‑builder Bending Spoons agreed to acquire collaboration‑tool maker Miro for $1.36 bn in cash, a price that is roughly 92% lower than the $17.5 bn valuation the company enjoyed at the height of the pandemic‑driven SaaS boom.

11 September 2026

French AI start‑up Mistral secured a €3 bn Series‑D round led by Samsung Electronics, bringing total equity to €5.8 bn and adding $830 m of debt to fund a European compute push that targets 200 MW by 2027 and up to 1 GW by 2030.

10 September 2026

Uplift Ventures has launched a €100 million venture‑capital fund to back up to 20 European deep‑tech startups at the late‑seed and Series A stage, with logistics giant Jungheinrich among the backers.

10 September 2026

Decathlon has signed a letter of intent to buy half of SAS Sport 2000 France, a move that keeps Sport 2000 stores independent while pairing Decathlon’s scale with the cooperative’s territorial reach. The deal, subject to French competition‑authority approval, is slated for completion in 2027.

9 September 2026

Swedish private‑equity firm EQT is set to become the majority owner of London‑based specialist insurance broker McGill & Partners in a transaction valuing the business at roughly $2 billion. The deal, which will see Warburg Pincus exit, is slated for completion in the first half of 2027 pending regulatory clearance.

8 September 2026

The UK Competition and Markets Authority has published fresh guidance on buying agentic AI for public projects,…

8 September 2026

Italian operator Lottomatica will absorb Spain’s Cirsa in an all‑share deal, rolling Blackstone’s existing stake into the combined group and giving the private‑equity firm roughly a 24% holding, the largest individual stake in the newly‑formed company.

7 September 2026

Volkswagen’s supervisory board approved a second wave of 50,000 layoffs on 5 September 2026, doubling the announced cuts to roughly 100,000 and sending VW preferred shares up almost 10%. About 25,000 of the new cuts will fall in Germany, while the future of the Hannover, Emden, Zwickau and Neckarsulm sites remains undecided.

6 September 2026

Moderna and Merck & Co. announced that their experimental mRNA‑4157 vaccine met primary endpoints in a registration‑size study, marking the first successful outcome for an mRNA‑based cancer therapy. Wall Street analysts now project a 2027 launch and billions of dollars in revenue.

6 September 2026

ADHD Test’s latest breakdown shows 33% inattentive, 7% hyperactive‑impulsive and 60% combined adult cases, mirroring NHS and NIMH categories.

5 September 2026